Quotes About Ego

Ego speaks from a place of pride.Judgement comes from a place of pain.Courage speaks from a place of humility.Correction comes from a place of love.Where are you operating from?

Money makes a person significant and important, it has the ability to make us proud

It causes us to focus our attention on ourselves and draws us away from God

We were as big as the ocean, but as fragile as an ego.

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

If your level of anger or bitterness is not leading to a change in your life or relationship, it is because your ego is dominating.

Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

I love you, but I'm more in love with myself and that's the problem.

We're bound by our desire to be right.

Get to know who you are not, because when you know your ego the Truth of who you are will also become clear.

People think that I'm a nice guy.The truth is that I'm so nasty that I don't allow anyone else to hate me, except myself.

You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to be illegal.

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.

Anna Freud's book The Ego and Mechanisms of Defense (1936) was a partial response to this problem. It became a psychoanalytic field marshal's handbook, documenting and illustrating various unconscious defensive strategies of the ego, alerting the clinician to telltale signs of their operation in the patient's psyche. Reorienting

In Lacan's view, it is not just dreams but conscious subjective experience in general that is organized into distracting little stories, and it is the folly of ego psychology and object relations theories to have bought into the disguises offered by secondary elaboration, to have taken the illusory stories as real, rather than covers for an underlying sense of loss, absence, castration.

The mother becomes important because she provides gratification, he believed; human love is built on both direct and disguised (aim-inhibited) gratifications, as the ego finds ways to repress, sublimate, and refine instinctual impulses so they find a place in more complex object relations.

But we must remember that, in a way, claiming all or too much responsibility is just another form of ego gratification.

Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.